<div><br><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Regardless of the practicalities – and I cannot see this
being popular with either GPs or patients – would this outsourcing of NHS
data be legal under DPA? Even if already being done?</span></font></p><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>IANAL, but probably not.<br><br>I interviewed one provider of a dictation service with the typing done in india, who would not have it that any data at all left the UK, since the typists were working on the server that was in the UK.<br>
<br>I was unable to satisfy myself whether he believed it, and was therefore stupid and ignorant, or knew it to be untrue and was repeating the story anyway in the hope of gaining profit.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Adrian Midgley <a href="http://www.defoam.net/">http://www.defoam.net/</a><br>